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Syntactic Awareness in Relation to Reading Skill and Ongoing Reading Comprehension Monitoring.
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Bowey, Judith A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Investigates relationships between syntactic awareness and reading proficiency. Fourth- and fifth-grade children of varying decoding ability differed in syntactic awareness according to their ability to correct grammatically deviant sentences in an oral language task. Significant correlations were observed between task results and measures of…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Do Children with Down Syndrome Have Difficulty with Argument Structure?
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Grela, Bernard G. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2003
The language transcripts of seven children with Down syndrome (DS) and seven typically developing children with comparable mean length of utterance levels were compared for verb argument structure. Findings suggest that syntactic difficulties may delay children with DS in overcoming the optional subject phenomena and the lesser number of anomalous…
Descriptors: Child Development, Down Syndrome, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education
Linguistic Trade-Offs in School-Age Children with and without Language Disorders.
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Masterson, Julie J.; Kamhi, Alan G. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1992
Trade-off effects among linguistic components were compared in 30 elementary school children with deficits in both oral and written language, deficits only in written language, or normal language development. Analysis of syntax, phonology, and fluency indicated group effects, with trade-offs between some linguistic measures and positive…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Interaction, Language Acquisition, Language Fluency
Performance of American Indian Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome on the Test of Language Development.
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Carney, Laura J.; Chermak, Gail D. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1991
Twenty-seven American Indian children (ages 4-12), 10 with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and 17 normally developing control subjects, were administered the Test of Language Development. FAS children exhibited depressed performance on most subtests. The older FAS children presented syntactic deficits whereas the younger FAS subjects presented more…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Alcoholism, American Indians, Congenital Impairments
Definitions and Definite Noun Phrases: Indicators of Children's Decontextualized Language Skills.
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Davidson, Rosalind G.; And Others – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 1986
Assesses the performance of bilingual children on two language tasks in both the children's languages in order to determine whether the profile of skills in the first language was replicated in the second language. (HOD)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Definitions
Spoken and Written Language Assessment of Orally Trained Children with Hearing Loss: Syntactic Structures and Deviations.
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Tur-Kaspa, Hana; Dromi, Esther – Volta Review, 1999
A language assessment procedure was used with spontaneous spoken and written language samples of 13 orally trained children with hearing loss in integrated classrooms in two Israeli elementary schools. Results revealed significant differences between spoken and written language samples of these children in various correct syntactic structures,…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Evaluation Methods, Expressive Language
Developmental Sentence Scoring: Still Useful after All These Years.
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Hughes, Diana L.; And Others – Topics in Language Disorders, 1992
Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS) is a measure of spoken syntax that provides a numeric variable, provides some developmental data, and serves an organizing function for asking and answering clinical questions. DSS is useful in making diagnostic judgments, selecting goals and planning treatment, and measuring intervention efficacy. Difficulties…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
The Nature of the Reading-Writing Relationship: A Multivariate Approach.
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Shanahan, Timothy – 1982
A study examined the relationship of multiple measures of reading and writing at the second and fifth grade levels. Multiple reading tests (measuring vocabulary, word recognition, sentence comprehension, and passage comprehension) and writing tests (evaluating vocabulary diversity and syntactic complexity, and providing qualitative and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 2, Grade 5, Measurement Techniques